By informing public opinion about the current repression and persecution of activists, political opposition members and journalists in the DRC, as well as the endemic corruption among governing bodies, systemic impunity for serious human rights abuses and a humanitarian and socio-economic crisis throughout the DRC, in particular and especially in the east, the Project strives to demonstrate the need to offer asylum and a warm welcome to those fleeing the DRC. We also campaign to prevent the forced deportation of refugees back to the DRC, regardless of their circumstances, because of a well-founded fear that they will be persecuted on their return. The Project was integral to the 2007 legal campaign that successfully forced the Home Office to temporarily suspend deportations to the country and grant leave to remain to many Congolese families.